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The distributed human neural system for face perception.
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A model for the organization of this system that emphasizes a distinction between the representation of invariant and changeable aspects of faces is proposed and is hierarchical insofar as it is divided into a core system and an extended system.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2000-06-01. It has received 4430 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fusiform face area & Visual perception.read more
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Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
James V. Haxby,M. Ida Gobbini,Maura L. Furey,Alumit Ishai,Jennifer L. Schouten,Pietro Pietrini +5 more
TL;DR: The functional architecture of the object vision pathway in the human brain was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure patterns of response in ventral temporal cortex while subjects viewed faces, cats, five categories of man-made objects, and nonsense pictures, and a distinct pattern of response was found for each stimulus category.
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Neural systems for recognizing emotion.
TL;DR: Two important mechanisms for recognition of emotions are the construction of a simulation of the observed emotion in the perceiver, and the modulation of sensory cortices via top-down influences.
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Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviour.
TL;DR: The social brain sciences are probing the neural underpinnings of social behaviour and have produced a banquet of data that are both tantalizing and deeply puzzling as discussed by the authors. And they are finding new links between emotion and reason, between action and perception, and between representations of other people and ourselves.
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Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision
TL;DR: A striking level of voxel-by-voxel synchronization between individuals is found, not only in primary and secondary visual and auditory areas but also in association cortices, which reveals a surprising tendency of individual brains to “tick collectively” during natural vision.
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The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces.
Nancy Kanwisher,Galit Yovel +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the F FA is engaged both in detecting faces and in extracting the necessary perceptual information to recognize them, and that the properties of the FFA mirror previously identified behavioural signatures of face-specific processing.
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The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
TL;DR: The data allow us to reject alternative accounts of the function of the fusiform face area (area “FF”) that appeal to visual attention, subordinate-level classification, or general processing of any animate or human forms, demonstrating that this region is selectively involved in the perception of faces.
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Hearing lips and seeing voices
Harry McGurk,John Macdonald +1 more
TL;DR: The study reported here demonstrates a previously unrecognised influence of vision upon speech perception, on being shown a film of a young woman's talking head in which repeated utterances of the syllable [ba] had been dubbed on to lip movements for [ga].
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Understanding face recognition
Vicki Bruce,Andrew W. Young +1 more
TL;DR: A functional model is proposed in which structural encoding processes provide descriptions suitable for the analysis of facial speech, for analysis of expression and for face recognition units, and it is proposed that the cognitive system plays an active role in deciding whether or not the initial match is sufficiently close to indicate true recognition.
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A cortical representation of the local visual environment
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that a particular area within human parahippocampal cortex is involved in a critical component of navigation: perceiving the local visual environment, and it is proposed that the PPA represents places by encoding the geometry of the local environment.